Speising

Speising
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Speising is part of the 13th district of Vienna Hietzing and one of the 89 Viennese cadastral communities .

history

Speising was first mentioned in a document in 1365. At that time, Duke Rudolf IV donated the lordships of Speising and Lainz to the Viennese provost of St. Stephen ( St. Stephen's Cathedral ) . Because of the relatively unprotected location of the village, the population suffered greatly from the effects of the war, especially during the first Turkish siege in 1529. On January 1, 1892, Speising was incorporated into the 13th district of Hietzing together with several other suburbs.

General

Speising and its surroundings 1872 (recording sheet of the state survey)

After the incorporation, major construction activity began. Many houses with a garden still have a high proportion of green spaces. The hospitals - the Rothschild Foundation Neurological Center Vienna on the border with Speising in the cadastral community of Rosenberg and the Orthopedic Spital Wien Speising (formerly Lower Austrian Regional Hospital Speising) - are surrounded by green spaces. For the Rothschild Foundation, an area of the then neighboring community of Mauer was incorporated into Vienna, as the founder wanted to build the hospital in Vienna.

The first rail transport to reach Speising was the connecting line , built in 1860 . It connects the stations Wien Hütteldorf and Wien Penzing on the Westbahn with the Wien Meidling station on the Südbahn . The S80 S-Bahn (Unter-Purkersdorf – Speising– Vienna Central Station - Marchegg ) is currently operating here . Freight traffic on the connecting line has been partially relocated to the Lainzer Tunnel since it opened on December 9, 2012. Since 2014, long-distance trains of the Western Railway, which are to be transferred to the Eastern Railway via Vienna Central Station, such as trains between Salzburg and Budapest , have no longer been routed on the connecting railway but through the Lainzer Tunnel.

Speising is crossed by tram lines 60 (formerly the Dampftramway Hietzing - Mödling , today only to Rodaun in the 23rd district ) and 62 (Ring, Oper - Lainz, Wolkersbergenstraße). On September 2, 2017, the terminus of line 60 on the city center side was relocated from Hietzing to Westbahnhof . At the western end of Hetzendorfer Straße is the Speising depot for Wiener Linien .

At Bergheidengasse 5-19 there is a higher commercial federal college for tourism and a higher federal college for business professions. The Hietzinger indoor swimming pool on Atzgersdorfer Strasse (border to the 12th district ) and the Invalidenhauskirche in the northeast of the district also belong to Speising.

media

The monthly Mauer Zeitung (formerly Maurer Zeitung ), which was initiated and published by the Liesinger School Association as part of a long-term school project, reports on local events in Speising and in the neighboring district of Mauer and the surrounding area, as well as local history topics . Today's publisher is the Association for the Promotion of Communication in Wall and the Surrounding Area . The local newspaper has a circulation of 30,000 copies (June 2009) and is supported by local business people and the WWFF , among others .

The Association for the Promotion of Communication has been operating the Mauer Online website for the neighboring district since 2006 , which includes online access to the Mauer Zeitung . Since 2008, the association has also been running the similar Internet presence Speising Online , which also provides information about local events.